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Donald Erickson (erickson@csnsys.com) wrote:

> I'm working with approximately 10,000 JPG and GIF files on a 
> 1.2G hard drive as well as thousands more on floppies.  In 
> order to keep the quantity of filenames in a particular 
> subdirectory under 1000 (the apparent limit of my version of 
> PC TOOLS for some operations), I've separated them into 
> subdirectories based on the first letter of the filename.
>  
> So that I can avoid downloading duplicate and reposted 
> files, I'd like to maintain the filenames along with size, 
> date, and time in a database using Alpha 4 V. 4.
>  
> There is no problem creating the database once I can get the 
> list of files into a data file itself.  Is there a simple 
> way to redirect the output of the command DIR into a file?
> Or should I look to one of the shareware catalog programs to 
> provide what I'm looking for?  
> Thanks for your help.

Well you can use my BRiNDYS CAT utility (already available as
as shareware program :)
Just a simple   

 dir *.jpg   >redirect.txt

will put in a text file all your directory, but using CAT:

 cat /E:g  >redirect.txt

will give you extra information, as the size, colors, and title of
the program used to create each image. The /E:G parameter tells the
program to only list Graphic files.
Or if you want to avoid having duplicated files, use:

 cat  /E:G  /C  /O:s

And you will get a warning for every duplicated file in the directory
(don't trust on date/time checking schemes, as many files with the same
length and contents can easily have different dates).
The /C uses the CRC-32 redundancy check to compare all files, and the /O:S
sorts the listing as DIR does.

Take a copy of CAT from:

http://www.fiv.upv.es/alumnos/a2917347/cat_e.html
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/win3/diskfile/bscat260.zip
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/dirutil/bscat260.zip
ftp://ftp.zetnet.co.uk/pub/fido/rar/BSCAT25E.RAR
or use archie with "bscat" to get a mirrored file near you.

Hope it helps.

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